so i dropped my phone from maybe 2 feet in the air, and the button just stops working altogether. no matter how hard or long i press the button, it doesnt respond at all. how can i fix it?
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Off course everything is fixable, certainly if rest of phone is working correctly.
You will have to open up your phone (break warranty) and investigate.
It could be simple, but it could also bee that your Motherboard needs replacing.
Al in all You could try to fix it, but I reccomend turning it in for repair, thus leaving warranty intact.
If there are no obvious markings, scars from the fall, do not mention it has fallen. You cuold be in luck and get it repaired under warranty (assuming you still have warranty)
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Hi everyone,
Tonight my Dopod D810 developed a 'rattle'.
When it rings and vibrates or even when I shake the phone lightly, I can hear something small rattling around inside like perhaps a small piece of plastic.
Taking the battery cover off and battery out did not help, it seems to be behind that and near the top of the phone around the lens/speaker area....
Any ideas on what I should do? Although I may have to, I'm reluctant to take it to a '3' store here in Melbourne, knowing that they will probably send it away for maintenance and I'll have to do without a phone for weeks.
Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks in advance,
BB.
I don't know about '3' but I think many phone stores can lend you a spare phone during the maintenance period.
Of course, that phone may not be as fancy as your trinity, but I think in this situation, any working phone would do.
there really isnt much that can come loose there. there is a small posidrive screw thats sunk into a plastic channel that could rattle if it came loose, and the vibrator motor is there as well so i guess it could have worked its way loose. depending how confident you are you could take the back off and have a look, just have to deal with that pesky warranty void sticker (and lay your hands on a set of small torx drivers)
thanks all - i don't want to void the warranty so early so i might just take it into '3' and get them to look at it....
Also, around the same time, the camera buttons has become difficult to push. It still has the tactile response of being pushed but it now does nothing.
I cannot launch the camera by pressing this button, nor can I take any photos now! Due to the hardware key not working, there is no soft-key method to take photos
Agree that you should take it back to the store as you don't want to loose your warranty.
If you did feal brave, this good post might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311463
screw loose
had the same prob. Opened my p3600 and had to refit one srew which had loosened itself. It even got stuck in the vibrating engine.
i did void my warranty though...
Thanks reb - did your camera button also stop working?
Mine was a screw that became lose from the speaker phone, quick fix no point of sending it in for repair. Wll i didnt
Hey BlackBeauty how did you get on with this? Mine has developed the same rattle noise. It started after the phone vibrated from a call coming in.
Have you opened yours up?
I sent my Trinity back to HTC to get fixed. I still have 9 months on the warranty and didn't want to void it. Must have been a loose screw as that was HTC's response. Sent it away on Monday and got it back today (Friday) good as new!
Hi. Got the issue for last 2 weeks - nobody can hear me, than holding pda as a normal phone, only than speaking directly to microphone, holding it in front of the mouth.
Tried lots of builds, but it doesn't seem to help anyways. Maybe there are some progs to help? Or the only way is service?
If you've tried a few ROMs and it didn't help, my guess would be hardware fault. Did you drop it before this problem? It could be as simple as a connection came loose.
If its still in warranty (doubtful) then take it in for a warranty service otherwise you may need to pull it apart yourself... To send in for repairs could cost you $$$... Do a search for the "HTC service manual Hermes". This will get you the instructions you need to pull apart.
Cheers...
it seems to fall down a bit)) and got no warranty)
to pull apart and to "check or missing rubber"?
After i dropped it on the floor, on a thick carpet though.
No physical damage, the phone is still powering on and all the hardware buttons work just fine, the screen just isn't responding.
I'm gonna send it back for repair, any hint/tips i might try to make it work before i send it away for probably 4-6 weeks?
Thanks!
Id guess the connector between the screen and the mainboard has come loose. Probably really simple to re connect, but would require opening teh phone which would void the warranty, so i would recommend you bite the bullet and send it back.
Hi there,
A couple of weeks ago, my Note 4 began to act up. Every so often the right hand side of the screen would freeze up and eventually show static.
These pictures aren't mine, but they show the exact issue: http://imgur.com/a/LqoeA
Anyway, I decided to go to my phone carrier (EE) to get it repaired as it was still in warranty. They agreed that this would be covered and sent it to their repair center. The repair center then contacted me and told me that the fault was due to water damage (which is impossible as my Note has never touched water) and sent it back, refusing to fix it. When I got it back, it was in a complete state. They had broken the LCD and Digitizer to the point where the screen wouldn't even turn on anymore, and it was hanging out by the ribbon cables (The home button and flex cables for the soft keys were also extremely loose).
Because of this, I decided that I'd have a go at fixing it myself. I went online and bought a new LCD + Digitizer. I've just fit it and now whilst the screen powers on again, I've come full circle as the static issue still is present.
Is there any more I can do or is there no way of getting this fixed without professional aid? I'm unable to send it in for repairs because the repair center obviously are unwilling to work on it, and even if they were now, I wouldn't trust them as they inflicted even more damage to the phone and sent it back to me in a worse state. I've already sank £100 on a replacement part, so I'm not to keen on paying for repairs either (I could put the money towards a new phone instead).
The help is much appreciated! Thanks!
Out of nowhere the Volume UP button stopped working. I can't recall anything I did recently (no new software or drops) that could have triggered this. I tried restarting a few times, using smart manager to clean, safe mode, and they all didn't work. I couldn't wipe partition cache because I can't even get into that menu with the Volume up button not working.
Any other ideas?
Factory reset or try flashing ur stock rom ...if it still persists hardware issue
604al said:
Out of nowhere the Volume UP button stopped working. I can't recall anything I did recently (no new software or drops) that could have triggered this. I tried restarting a few times, using smart manager to clean, safe mode, and they all didn't work. I couldn't wipe partition cache because I can't even get into that menu with the Volume up button not working.
Any other ideas?
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If something is not working on my phone, I'm going back to the shop where I bought it...
A factory reset didn't solve the issue. I ended up going to my nearby Samsung store for them to send it out for repair. They estimated 2 weeks and I had to give a $100 deposit to borrow a 5 year old android phone running android 4.2. To top it off, I heard the customer behind me start yelling and crying because they still had her phone after 1.5 months. This sucks.
Just to conclude this issue, Samsung returned my phone in 3 days! Very impressed with the service. They ended up replacing a part internally, removing my front and rear screen protectors in the process. There weren't any additional signs of wear or opening up the phone. I did ask about my waterproofing after this repair, and the store salesman said the "gore-tex" rubber is still intact and so is the warranty. I didn't bother with asking him to clarify the "gore-tex" part... it's been 3 days and it has been running as it should. I figure i'll test the waterproofing later.
604al said:
Just to conclude this issue, Samsung returned my phone in 3 days! Very impressed with the service. They ended up replacing a part internally, removing my front and rear screen protectors in the process. There weren't any additional signs of wear or opening up the phone. I did ask about my waterproofing after this repair, and the store salesman said the "gore-tex" rubber is still intact and so is the warranty. I didn't bother with asking him to clarify the "gore-tex" part... it's been 3 days and it has been running as it should. I figure i'll test the waterproofing later.
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Please note, the phone is not waterproof, it is water resistant, that makes a huge difference, so if your phone gets water damage, it does not need to be covered by the warranty.